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In Robert Heinlein's Friday, one of the main characters says that rudeness is a symptom of a dying culture. That's not terribly original, but he also says they don't recognize it as desperate illness; they think it's a form of strength. Halloween is taking off with young adults, which may be a symptom of the difficulty of performing an acceptable identity. The same complexity may underlie the brittle terror of failure common to many young adults: a community with no connective tissue, no mutual stake in one another's well-being, has no safety net. Former top designers at Facebook and Google are taking drastic steps to cut off their exposure to their inventions, because the whipsawing of attention is a far bigger force than anyone is acknowledging. Donald Trump's presidency can plausibly be explained as a function of his ability to hold attention. All ethics are situational, and when people behave in unacceptable ways, the first step to bridge-building is to reverse-engineer the situation that gave r
